re: #84 Charles

It’s politically advantageous for them to take it right up to the last freaking minute to squeeze out as many concessions as possible, and we can look forward to that.

I hope you’re right and there will be a compromise of some kind right at the bitter end, but I’ve never seen the rhetoric so heated and the craziness in the base so intense. With things like this, I think there’s actually a slim possibility that they really might pull that trigger.

It looks like their strategy is going to be to string it out as long as possible, They’ll take it up to the last minute and pass a temporary increase. That way they can do this again in a few months.